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In the natural world, living creatures have a myriad of ways of bringing more young into the world. Some produce thousands of eggs and young that grow quickly but only a few make it to adulthood. Others invest huge amounts of time and resources to develop and take care of only a few at a time.

 

 

Popular [[Mons]] trope, pretty much every Mons series uses it. Especially the ones that originate in [[Video Game|Video Games]], where it also serves to simplify the breeding mechanics -- see [[Hot Skitty On Wailord Action]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Billy Hatcher and The Giant Egg]]'' has them all over the place, generally used as [[Improbable Weapon User|weapons]] and movement aids. Things that can hatch from these eggs include tigers, butterflies, winged fire-breathing hippos, and [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] himself, among who knows what else. It's even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] when an NPC chick wonders who or what laid all of these eggs to begin with.

* ''[[Spore]]'': Every creature hatches from an egg, be it lizard-bug, or snake-monkey, or what have you.

* ''[[Creatures]]'': The Norns and Ettins look mammalian (and one popular [[Game Mod|third-party breed]] for the second game was able to nurse their young,) but all three creature types lay eggs (of course, they were all genetically engineered by an entire ''species'' of extremely absent-minded scientists, so they don't necessarily have to make that much natural sense)

** There are mammals that lay eggs, just not very many of them.

* In earlier ''[[Dragon Quest Monsters]]'' games, your monsters laid eggs, regardless of what they were.

* See: Every single ''[[Pokémon]]'' ever. Including the [[Hot Skitty On Wailord Action|whales.]] And the plants. And the ''rocks''. And the ''ghosts''. And the ''eggs''.

** Collecting chicken-style eggs that will hatch out into all sorts of creatures -- birds, mammals, frogs, fish, bugs, ''trees'', ''VAMPIRES'' -- is the whole point of the Facebook game Hatchlings.

* The plot of ''[[The Legend of Zelda Links Awakening|The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening]]'' is to break the ostentatious egg of the Wind Fish, which is essentially a gigantic, telepathic whale with disproportionate wings! (Also to fight evil Kirby clones, but that's irrelevant at the moment.)

** ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' has Dino Piranha, a plant-dinosaur hybrid that is born from an egg, and ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'' has Peewee Piranha, another plant-dinosaur hybrid born from an egg.

* In ''[[Minecraft]]'', in creative mode, any and all of the mobs can be spawned with eggs, even pigmen and ghasts.

** Oddly, we have to presume the dragons actually ''don't'' come from eggs, since Jake's dad still doesn't know what's going on...

* Inverted in ''[[Franklin|Franklin and the Green Knight]]'' where they actually show [[You Fail Biology Forever|Mrs. Turtle being pregnant rather than showing Harriet (Franklin's baby sister) hatching out of an egg.]]

 

== Real Life ==